Art Rocks!: Audie Maxie
This week on Art Rocks!, see Linville native Audie Maxie transform trees into functional housewares, explore the Reno Little Theatre in Nevada, and contemplate the Choctaw and Cherokee heritage in Jeffrey Gibson's abstract art.
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Hand-crafted wooden bowls by Audie Maxie
Friday, February 7 at 8:30 pm and Saturday, February 8 at 5:30 pm on Art Rocks!, meet Audie Maxie, a woodworker from Linville, Louisiana, who turns blocks of wood into bowls that are as decorative as they are functional. He favors maple, walnut, and pecan wood because of the ‘spalted’ characteristics including unique coloration and patterns. An engineer by day, Audie says, “Wood turning is just good therapy. A lot of it is just the thrill of revealing what’s there, cutting into a block of wood and seeing what the grain looks like, what the pattern is.” Next, we go behind the curtain at the Reno Little Theater in Nevada, and then meet Hudson, New York, mixed media artist, Jeffrey Gibson, whose Choctaw and Cherokee heritage inspires his minimalist abstract art.
Hosted by James Fox-Smith of Country Roads Magazine, Art Rocks! is LPB’s weekly series that spotlights artists, performance, culture, literature, history and the impact of art in our world. It features Louisiana stories, as well as segments from across the country. Current and past episodes are here: www.lpb.org/artrocks.
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